Over the past decade, many people including gamers have found a refuge of creativity in the game Minecraft. Much cheaper and way more accessible than Legos Minecraft has been both a blessing for many kids who have been looking for a creative outlet and a way to play with others online while also being one of the most successful video games in history. But with this limitless sandbox, how can you take full advantage of it and create something that is both unique and your own? This might seem easy at first, but the reality is that a lot of work goes into creating something that can be considered a work of art inside of a video game. So, let’s take a look at the one such case that took over a decade to build inside of the private Minecraft session.
Before we can even talk about the Kingdom of Galekin it’s important to understand how much work goes into maintaining the same Minecraft project over 12 years. The reality is of course that through the years many patches of cumin that I’ve completely changed out the game operates and how building works inside the game. This means that no matter what kind of meaningful progress you make as you build, sometimes you have to go back to completely redo what you did because the new techniques available make it easier for you to fulfill your intended creative goals fully. This is what the creator of the Kingdom of Galekin had to go through, over, and over. So, keep this in mind as we discuss his impressive achievement.
The Reddit user that goes by dancsa222 is not only a frequent poster on r/gaming but also on the Minecraft forums. While many gamers partake in the popular Skyblock mode, or look at Feed the Beast mod packs, dancsa222 was busy building a fully original fantasy kingdom on his personal Minecraft session. He started this arduous task back in 2012 and continues to work on it to this very day. In Minecraft communities, this is what we often refer to as mega builds. One of the most impressive and important parts of the Galekin project is that it was realized by a single person. No outside help and no friends, a single minecrafter with a passion for building his world.
The Kingdom of Galekin is not a simple copy-pasted world or built with parts of different maps. Dancsa222 crafted every single massive city and village that exists in the world of Galekin. He created massive monuments and temples as well as medieval hovels all for the sake of making his world feel realistic and lived, which many medieval games fail to live up to nowadays. This is of course very relevant as he does aim to potentially open it as a massive RPG world online for other players once all the ways to add RPG elements are figured out and realized within the constraints of the Minecraft systems. There are of course many mods available right now that could fulfill the roles that he’s looking for, but he is going through a pretty rigorous process to make his dream come true in Minecraft.
The process of the creation of Galekin is awe-inspiring and if you are interested in following the many steps, he took to build the world while visiting it yourself you might find it interesting to look at his YouTube channel. While the Galekin project was a passion project dancsa22, also known as Linard, found it both useful and fun to document his process on YouTube. It made it easier to keep up with his project and stay motivated through the many years the project has lasted. He has filmed many tours of the world where he talks about the many projects he has built and all those he still has for the kingdom of Galekin. Seeing how people can create massive worlds like this, especially by themselves, is truly fascinating especially if you are a Minecraft player yourself. The reality is that everyone dreams of being able to build their worlds and creations, but it can be quite difficult without the time to pour into it or without the appropriate skills to make your vision come to life.
This is of course not the first mega build, but it is one of the first to be of this impressive scope and be built by a single person. Many people compared this single-person project to the massive Middle Earth project led by a large team of players we saw many years ago. People have aimed to build the whole of Middle Earth in Minecraft over many years but here we are talking about a single person. It is always interesting to look at the Minecraft forums or websites like PlanetMinecraft to see how gamers can be so passionate and skilled in creating massive works or recreating existing worlds and buildings inside the game in a way that makes them accessible to everyone. Before you dismiss all this work as simple video games fun you should check it out by yourself and see how involved people are in these projects.